“DELAWARE BANDOLIER BAG”: This work from the 1850s is featured in “Never Broken: Visualizing Lenape Histories,” on view at the Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pa., September 9 through January 14.
The James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pa., will present “Never Broken: Visualizing Lenape Histories,” an exhibition that considers the power of art to construct and dismantle inaccurate Indigenous histories through a display of contemporary work by Lenape (also called Delaware) artists in dialogue with historic Lenape ceramics, beadwork, and other cultural objects and representations of Penn’s Treaty by European American artists.
On view September 9 through January 14, “Never Broken” features recent and newly commissioned work by Ahchipaptunhe (Delaware Tribe of Indians and Cherokee), Joe Baker (Delaware Tribe of Indians), Holly Wilson (Delaware Nation and Cherokee), and Nathan Young (Delaware Tribe of Indians, Pawnee, and Kiowa) that express personal and tribal identity and address the Lenape’s violent displacement from Lenapehoking, the Lenape homeland which encompasses the region where the Michener Art Museum currently stands.
Curated by Baker, co-founder and executive director of Lenape Center in Manhattan, and Laura Turner Igoe, Ph.D., chief curator at the Michener Art Museum, “Never Broken” will include approximately 50 artworks and objects from 10 private and institutional lenders.
Igoe said, “We are excited to share this groundbreaking exhibition with our visitors. Through a focus on Lenape art and culture and a critical examination of historical visualizations of Native and European American relationships, ‘Never Broken’ demonstrates the ways in which art can create, challenge, and rewrite history.”
“The Michener Museum of Art has assembled the legitimate heirs to Lenapehoking in this evocative new exhibit, “Never Broken: Visualizing Lenape Histories,” said Baker. “Four contemporary Lenape artists through their arts practice push back against a silenced history…
Cherokee: front row, l to r: Kegan Calhoun, Ayla Fanning, Rufus Morgan, William Shifflett and Lia Miner. Second row: Tyler Friel, Abbilynn Turner, Andrea Alderman, Elizabeth Friel, Kynlee Wilfong, George Shifflett and Berkley Buzzard. Third row: Joseph McClure, Brantley Cox, Max Chamberlain, Makenna Marsh, Jessica Armstrong, Silas Dean, Levi Hill, Ezra Bond, Colton Cassell and Ramona Hardy. 
Delaware: front row, l to r: Isabella McClure, Maggie Wilfong, Aaron MacGregor and Elizabeth McClure. Second row: Eli Beezley, Emma Anderson, Claire Kelk, Hunter Cheek, Haley Spencer, Luke Gainer, TD Sparks, Khloe Gainer and Zara Fanning. Third row: Weston Cassell, Ahna Valach, Eowyn Smith, Abigail Stewart, Fayla Wilfong and Quinn MacGregor. Back row: Abby Bauserman, Quincy Sharp, Carter Faulknier, Luke Taylor, Dallas Sharp, RT Hill and Coleton Taylor. 
Mingo: front row, l to r: Shelldon Maitland, Ace Gregory, Natalie Sisler, Bentlee Gladwell, Canden Lambert and Carmen Warner. Second row: Marcus Bauserman, Riyan Gladwell, Caitlin Mallow, Grace Beverage, Melinda Beverage, Rya Barlow and Mazie Monico. Third row: Kya Arbogast, Cora Baldwin, Morgan Smith, James Monico, Trey Sattler, Noah Dilley, Erin Rider and AJ Bauserman. Back row: Eden Smith, Katelyn Stull, Carly Chamberlain, Morgan Beverage, Ben Workman, Kirsten Friel and Abigail Taylor. 
Seneca: front row, l to r: Parker Burns, Kylor Brock, Brysen Cox, Lane Wilfong, Crickett Gregory, Tyler Faulknier and Gracie Irvine. Second row: Mackenzie White, Victor Dean, Jaryd Wilfong, Hannah Burks, Caleb Ritter, Ava Fields and Riley Hamons. Third row: Richard White, Layla Highland, Hayden Reed, Bobby Lee Gray, Makiya Burns, Emma Sacca, Natalie Irvine, Camden Gregory, Mia Valach, Irelyn Withers, Savana Sharp, Arabella Wade, Grayson Barlow, Jaxon Cassell and Sienna Hamons. 
Big Feet: front row: Tracey Valach,…
